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Friday, December 18, 2009

Friday, December 18, 2009

There are plenty of reasons why you might not want to wish someone a merry Christmas.

Maybe you're trying to be more inclusive of the cooking community:

Or you're celebrating the oft-overlooked "Hally Days":

Or perhaps you want all of their various "hollidays" to be happy:

Or maybe - just maybe - you're trying to get your friend Roxanna a goodbye cake but all the bakery has on hand are stock Merry Christmas designs so you're forced to make do with one of those and then hope the Wreckerator on duty doesn't screw up your instructions too badly.

But that's just a guess.

Annie J., Kat I., April B., & Kimberly I., I think it's high time we all agreed that "Winter, underlined" really is the best greeting of the season - don't you?

Today's charity, Love146, has one simple, compelling, gut-wrenching goal: "The abolition of child sex slavery and exploitation. Nothing less." If you have a box of tissues nearby, read how they got their name. Then go give that dollar - or maybe a few.

Lol, the cakes like the last wreck never get old. How dense do you have to be (or how much must you hate your job) to miss something like that? Forget for a minute that someone actually piped that onto a cake without a long head-scratching and finally an "Ah-HA!" moment, but they also SOLD that cake. It is just amazing that anyone could actually read an order and really think to themselves "well I am supposed to write what is in the 'inscription' area of the order form, so I guess they really want the cake to say that." Amazing. (exclamation point instead of period)

WV: Desem as in desemcakes, or cakes that have been utterly destroyed by a wreckorator.

Oh Jen, you are the greatest!LOL, didn't you know the first one is the picture for the penguin BBQ recipe? The second cake can't say "Holly" (or 'Holi') days because there's no holly to be found...just huge blue clumpy roses. The last one, well of course it is the future cover of a Christmas / Winter / Snow specialty book for next year - right? ;-)

wv: triebrow Part of the penguin recipe- take 3 penguins on a spit. Triebrow till crackling brown- seasoning to taste.p.s. My daughter LOVES penguins and is going to be VERY upset with me.

Would you believe that yesterday I stood in line behind a woman with that exact same cake design as the wishing goodbye in place of merry Christmas cake? At least hers came out unwrecked (it just said Merry Christmas or something boring like that). She did pay only $16.99 for it, just as an FYI.

Oh, the second one is obviously a get-well wish for French rocker Johnny Hallyday. He's been recording for something like 30 years, is wildly popular with young and old alike, and is currently recovering from major surgery in LA. He might look like 40 miles of bad road, but his concerts are a blast.

The penguins are so cute on the first one that I didn't notice at first that it said "Seasonings Greetings!" and then I laughed even harder! Mmmmmm,roast penguin!Ironically, our local(Toronto)newspaper has an editorial cartoon of a Christmas card with the message "Happy Halladays" written on it, because the Toronto Blue Jays just traded pitcher Roy Halladay to the Philadelphia Phillies!

While I am sure its far too late to add another charity to your list, today's put me in mind of another good cause that I thought I would mention: http://www.warchild.ca/

War Child Canada is a registered Canadian charity dedicated to providing urgently needed humanitarian assistance to war-affected children around the world. War Child Canada helps generate awareness, support and advocacy for children's rights everywhere.

"Seasoning's Greetings" is actually a nice-looking cake (or cookie? It's a nice looking something). It would be a good accompaniment to the box of excellent spices my brother gave me for Christmas last year.... If it's meant to say "Season's Greetings," though, the season must be summer, since in the Southern Hemisphere, where penguins live, December is in the summer.

As for "We'll miss you, Roxanna, in place of Merry Christmas," I just can't figure out why they'll only miss here there, and not in other places as well. Maybe Roxanna always played the lead in the local Christmas pageant?

The penguins are cute, and you can actually tell what they are! I had to read it twice to figure out what was wrong with it. XD

Hee, I was at my local supermarket bakery last night but to their credit I have to say that they are decidedly wreck-free. Even their display photo cake was dust-free. There were some smooshed cupcakes in the case that had fallen over but that was an accident. There was even a CCC (ptooie!) with a plastic Santa kit that actually looked cute!

" He might look like 40 miles of bad road, but his concerts are a blast."BAHAHAHA!!! I've never been to a Johnny Hallyday concert, so I can't verify the last part of that statement, but the first part is a pretty accurate assessment. :P

Not fair. I'm trying to laugh at the cakes but instead I'm sitting here crying from the story on Love 146. Thank you Jen and John for bringing this charity to our attention and for running such an awesomely hilarious website.

Is that pock mark on Roxanna's cake from someone's finger? Or from her own heavy tears? If it turns out she's leaving the company that made this cake, maybe it was out of gratitude for her own sort of Independence Day!

Two weeks ago I participated in a local fashion show fundraiser for Love146, it's so great to see them getting some attention! They are awesome and it is such a worthy cause. I love that you are doing your part to make sure the holiday is about giving to others rather than about "getting stuff". Thanks, Cakewrecks!

Today's charity touched me. I was so sickened by how people can do this to little children I decided to donate my lunch money. Thank you for bringing ALL of these great charity's to light. I have donated a little something everday and have posted a link on my Facebook page everday hoping that my friends and family will feel inclined to share as well. Thank you for CW for opening your hearts and using your web-fame for good!

Dear Powers That Be at CW :) You may already have the rest of your charity's picked out to finish of your days of giving, however, if you don't I would like to throw one out there. The Mission Continues is a charity that works with injured Service Members who will not be able to return to "normal" jobs, but still want to contribute to society. The objective is to teach these wounded heroes skills so that their communities may see them as an asset and not an inconvienence. I have personally met the found Eric Grietens and have heard him speak. I also know one of their "fellows" and how much his life was changed. http://missioncontinues.org/

Thank you for letting us be a part of helping these wonderful charities! I wanted to nominate an organization called Love Thy Neighbor (lovethyneighbor.org), which gives homeless folks culinary training. It is a really small group, which you'll be able to tell from their modest website, but a worthwhile cause nonetheless. (Here's how I first heard of them: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?sched=1094) Again, thanx! You rule!

I am compelled to respond to your, "Winter, underlined," greeting. Such blatant hemisphere-ism has no place in a humor blog. I and my family have been living in Australia for almost four months now, so I feel fully entitled to speak for everyone here, not to mention everyone in the rest of the southern hemisphere: It's SUMMER! It's 115 degrees! The birds are building nests, the school kids are on vacation and swim classes are starting up. Assuming the world is celebrating YOUR season is blatantly narrow-minded and highly offensive to those of us slathered in SPF 40, making sweat angels on the patio. Half the world is not in Winter, undelined. May I suggest you think of a more inclusive greeting.

Thanks for pointing out the kidneys, dear readers. (or are they lungs?) Perhaps "hollidays" are days of improved health due to a diuretic, passing a kidney stone, etc. So it's like a good health cake!

and what IS that blue squashed thing? did a hannukah cupcake heavy laden with blue icing fall over on the cake? and the wreckerator just pulled off the cakey part and wrapper and left it there, pretending it was part of the original decoration? since it didn't smear their Hally message...

I just wanted to tell you I'm so happy to see you sharing these charities with all of us. I am personally not currently able to donate, but I'm definitely planning on coming back to this when I can!! I have taken some of the links and passed them on through other forums--the more the word gets out, the more that will be donated!!

You are both amazing for focusing your Christmas celebrations around this, and encouraging others to do so as well :)

when I read this I pictured the kids that use the homeless head start in our building. I pictured them going through this. Some might. They're homeless and so are perhaps more vulnerable to this sort of exploitation. I imagine those little three year olds in about 10 years time, and pray that it doesn't happen to any of them, but fear that it may.

I was molested by my paternal grandfather once. It would have probably happened more but we lived a state away...didn't see him much. That one event was traumatic. Living through it on a daily basis I can't imagine.

I can think of at least one instance where at least THE SPELLING on the "Happy Hollidays" cake would be spot on. One of my clients from my former job--Her last name was Holliday,spelled with the two L's--so it could be a cute advertising for her business.

Well, you know, it would be cute if the REST of it weren't so hideous...

That last one is so passive-aggressive - particularly since the designs on the bulbs look like a pile of bones.. femurs unless i miss my guess. Thats if Roxanna isn't passed away already. If she is then its just tasteless.

Cake Wrecks is an all-time favorite blog-thing that I ever seen. CW can and prabably will drownd every other blog that I have read in chocolate-poo-like icing. All of those internet trolls can kiss my butt cos Cake Wrecks owns. I have never lol-ed harder in my LIFE. Me and my older sister love your work and would be delighted if you posted more cute and funny "Fail-Cakes" ( as I call them). For my 13th birthday,I want my cake to say " Nappy 13rd Beffday Elizabeth!"

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